hardship

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Difficulty or trouble

   Difficulty or trouble; hard times.

   • He has survived periods of financial hardship before.
   • If train services of this kind were to be cut off, without any provision of alternative services, there would, of course, be hardship in some cases.
   • The TUCC's role was to assess what (if any) hardship a BR closure proposal would cause, and to make recommendations to ministers who would have the final say.
2. 2

   A burden, a source of difficulty that could impose a barrier.

   • When you visit the museum, we invite you to make a donation of $10 if this will not be a hardship.
3. 3

   To treat (a person) badly

   To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.

   • […] an adjustment of the income tax could easily produce the twenty millions without hardshipping any industrious person in the community […]
   • Although we lost the election by the narrowest of margins, the people of Oregon heard a great deal about education, and particularly about how "look-say" reading instruction was hardshipping Oregon school children.

The neighborhood

• antonymsoftship
• antonymenthusiasm